Charoite is an extremely rare stone from Russia. Charoite comes from the river Chara located in Siberia, Russia. Charoite. Charoite is a strong a very strong mineral and has a translucent lavender to purple color almost looking synthetic at times. This beautiful hand-made Charoite necklace is 100% natural and has sterling silver beads in between the perfectly round Chariote beads as well as a sterling silver clasp. This Charoite necklace is 20 inches in length and the size of the largest bead is 20mm. Charoite is very rare and extremely limited mineral and is on the verge of extinction due to over mining.